The Pearsall Leader (Pearsall, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, October 27, 1911 Page: 2 of 8
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The Pearsall Leader
HUDSON & WOODWARD, Pab*.
ARSALL. r : TEXAS
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Every auto speeder fancies himself
immjme.
London “Punch” Is seventy years
So are some of Its jokes.
A trip In the air is now the quickest
“way to get underground quickly.
A suggestion of work Is like hurling
a bomb into the hoboes’ convention.
Joy riding is no longer uncertain,
e results usually can be told in ad*
vance.
What use have we for mermaids
pretty American girls can out-
swim the world?
New York has killed 113,306 dogs
i cats and the people are getting
more sleep per capita.
* Boston man at 58 ears of corn in
:t o hours, which shows culture isn’t
T Boston man’s specialty.
The magazines are carried In
ght trains and even then they are
to anticipate their date lines.
Harvard professor who says
: - are better off by not taking va*
cations is talking through his mortar
board.
ashioned mothers are badly
f i, says a minister; and so are
fashioned children, it might be
dded.
he aeroplane is expected to be a
tee maker. By taking the jin-
’• luto the air and leaving them
e?
Chicago man wants a divorce be*
wife refuses to talk to him.
pearls before swine, so to
o a tong flight didn’t do any-
\ it put on the map several
•wns that nobody had ever
d of before.
at there is an unusually
op of cranberries is but an
reminder to the inhabitants
e barnyard.
ell has designed a furnace
'alms will cool a house,
somebody design a furnace
heat a house?
from New York tells us
t s was bitten 52 times
we go to press the dog
ical condition.
comet soon will be vis-
ked eye—this is, if one
P-tter to do than to sit
waiting for it.
ever been found who
afidence in himself as
he could not edit a news*
than the editor.
designed a furnace
us will cool a house in-
•mg it He’s too late,
already on the market
thing.
GIRL IS HELD FOR
INCITING A MOB
Nebraska Young Woman-Charg-
ed With a Cruel and Most
Unusual Crime.
PLOTTED A LYNCHNG
Four Ranchmen Hanged Her Sweet,
heart, and It Is Said the Girl, Be-
lieving She Would Get $7,000 Insur-
ance, Planned It.
Valentine, Neb.—Eunice Murphy, of
this place, the girl accused of having
incited a mob to hang her fiance in
order that she might inherit his life
insurance, has been held for the dis-
trict court The presiding judge de-
clared that Miss Murphy is just as
guilty as the men who took her sweet-
heart to a tree and hanged him.
Silent to all buther attorneys, de-
spondent, but dry-eyed, Miss Eunice
Murphy is composedly waiting in her
jail cell the day when she shall be
called to trial as accessory to the
atrocious murder of Charles Sellers,
her sultog.
To all appearances an unsophisticat-
ed country girl, the young woman is
Intelligent enough to keep quiet about
her affairs. She is charged with incit-
ing her fiance, George Weed, his
brother Alma, her cousin and former
fiance, _iarry Heath, and her brother,
Kenneth Murphy, to their cruel at-
tack upon a man who had for three
years sought her hand in marriage.
Avarice is alleged as the motive.
Thus are all the elements of a melo-
drama present in her case. Taking
advantage of them, she might, with a
newspaper interview, clothe herself
with all that morbid glamor so dear to
a sensation-loving grablic. Yet she
prefers to keep her own counsel, re-
fusing to make the simplest ’ state-
ments about the affairs and referring
all questioners to her lawyers.
The hanging of Sectors, June 18, by
some of his neighboring ranchmen
for street cars have
What about mega- j
ongers who wish to I
•::! station on lines
toesn’t ring?
I vania made a bet i
under water for two i
<: to win it. He j
ours, and succeeded j
t ting that a fool’s j
. : - e in which to risk
ing to organize a
id maids,” but he
o are willing to ad-
• ible for member-
lost in the clouds j
not follow that he !
y be an energetic i
break altitude rec- !
es the tale of a
ty an enraged
Winsted. Conn.,
bout a man-eat-
who was bitten
d blood poison-
■rsey fly is en-
chieved by the |
lost, by her
usband, ali-
her third,
possible and
:rimonial in«
as badlj
itomobiie |
The Hanging of Sellers.
near Cody, Neb., created a sensation
for a time, but when four men charg-
ed with the crime were put in jail and
bound over to the district court, the
excitement subsided. Now it is
charged by John M. Tucker, county
attorney, that Miss Murphy incited
and procured the murder of Sellers,
her alleged motive being to get pos-
session of $7,000 of insurance policies
and considerable personal property
which she is said to have believed
would be bequeathed to her upon the
death of Sellers.
At the time of the killing of Sellers,
it was rumored that one jpan in the
party that hanged him to a telegraph
pole was inspired by jealousy, he be-
ing a suitor of the girl.
Hutch Jack and Sellers, who lived
together, were awakened one night by
a knock on the door by George B.
Weed. Jack knew Weed and invited
him into the house. Weed had said
he was making a social call. Weed
asked Sellers, who was in bed in an
adjoining room, to get up and come
into the room where Jack and Weed
were, but Sellers excused himself by
saying he was not feeling well. Fif-
teen minutes later, Jack says, a party
of men, composed of Kenneth Murphy,
Harry Heath and Alma Weed, came to
the Jack home. They were armed
and they covered Jack and command-
ed him to remain in the room where
he was. George Weed told Sellers to
get up.
“We are after you,’,’ he said, ac-
cording to the affidavit of the county
attorney. Sellers arose and Harry
Heath Is alleged to have thrown a
rope around his neck and pulled it
tight, and George Weed, Heath, Mur-
phy and Alma Weed are charged with
having dragged Sellers out of the
house to a nearby telephone pole and
driver 1 hanged him
tneri-
Ining
filled
says
andiag,
len It
rousers
Horses in Nail-Studded Car.
Savannah, Ga.—For transporting
horses and mules tor 90 hours In a
car studded, sides and bottom, with
heavy nails, which maimed or killed
all the animals, a Georgia railway has
ben made defendant in a suit for dam-
ages The animals nad been trans-
ferred from their original car and
were in another which hud na\ls stick-
ing out all around
p
Three Costumes
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mm j ALKING COSTUME.—Cloth or
lA/ serge would make up well in
WW this style; the skirt has a
* w floating panel down front tak-
en to within a few Inches of foot.
The basque of the Russian coat Is add-
ed under a belt of black satin, the
revera are also of satin edged with
black and white striped silk; this
with a binding of satin trims the
sleeves; a frill of soft lace adds a
finish.
Hat of black satin, trimmed with
ostrich feathers.
Visiting Dress.—Eau de Nil Vene-
tian cloth la used here, the skirt Is
slightly hlgh-waisted, and Is trimmed
part way down each aide by cord
sewn on quite straight, with a waving
of narrower cord between; a row of
buttons is sewn on the inside, little
openings are left at the foot, to show
pieces of material trimmed with cord.
The Magyar bodice is trimmed to
match, with the addition of black
satin, which forms straps outside
cord, and finishes collar and cuffs.
Hat of Tagel to match, trimmed
with a feather and bead cabouchon.
Smart Dress.—This becoming drees
is made up In vieux rose delaine, pat-
terned in black and white, and in
plain vieux rose delaine. The tunic
and lower part of bodice are of the
fancy delaine, the latter is prettily
trimmed with strappings of black
satin, which also edge the over-sleevea
and yoke, while lace Is used for the
under-sleeves and yoke; the lower
part of skirt and upper of bodice are
of the plain delaine.
Hat of black chip, trimmed with mn
aigrette and a large rosette of vjeux
rose tulle.
MARKING THE FALL COSTUME
ADORNMENT FOR THE BABY
1
Many New Ideas rAre to Be Found
Among the Latest Effects
Designed.
Much Consideration Has Been Given
to Designs for the Small
Household Monarch.
Practically all the new coats are
made full length and cut on straight
lines. They are made up In pongee,
soft finished taffeta and rubberized
silk.
Among the novelty coats for fall are
those made of taffeta or silk serge
and lined with heavy cloth, the cloth
being used for the trimming.
Silks, and especially silk velvets,
are in the highest favor, and three
silk frocks are seen now where before
two were shirtwaists and suit skirts.
The large collar revers and deep
turn-back cuffs are much in evidence
In new jackets. Quite a number have
skirtstrimmed to correspond with the
jackets.
The grandfather frill Is still In fa-
vor. Formed of a triple frill of point
d’esprit net falling in a cascade down
one side of the corsage, It makes a
pretty finish for almost any gown.
When sleeves are of the peasant
type, large folded back cuffs are usu-
ally employed as trimmings, with per-
haps a narrow undersleeve of some
sheer white material, net or all-over
embroidery.
Black or dark blue taffeta tailor-
mades, trimmed with fringe, are one
of the inventions of the year. Taffeta
Is coming into more and more favor
and a strenuous vogue for it is un-
doubtedly ahead.
TWO-SIDED JABOTS.
Sunray shirring Is coming In again,
and very quaint it looks on the little
white bonnets for Infants and their
sisters of two or three years. The
backs of the bonnets are stiffened
and round and the side portions also
%te shirred.
One dainty little bonnet of this
style is bordered with a band of white
fur, and a second has a narrower
band of mink and tiny dabs of the
mink over the ears.
Pink apple blossoms apepar on one
inodel, and a cluster of round, pink,
unopened buds on another. A wreath
is also a very pretty decoration, one
being just an applique of alternating
leaves and petals, the leaves being of
moss-green velvet and the petals of
pink silk. White chiffon makes some
of these bonnets and white bengaline
others. One combines the two mate-
rials, the chiffon being shirred in
bands and used to trim the more
severe outlines of the bengaline.
For a very new baby a long dress
has a three-inch ruffle at the foot,
applied with cording. A bow of pale
blue ribbon, with streamers that
reach almost to the hem of the long
skirt, is caught at the left side near
the shoulder.
For a little tot In short dresses
there is a dainty coat of accordion-
plaited white chiffon, with a forward
turning hem, and a little cape mads
of white bengaline, embroidered.
The modest little Jabot which used
© fill in the V of tbe coat opening
jow looks prltn and old-fashioned, in-
deed. New jabots are stupendous af-
fairs. which make the whole coat
front white and fluffy with sheer ma-
terial and lace frills. This jabot has
on one side a rever of tucked lawn
and lace. At the straight edge of the
rever is a jabot frill of plaited lawn
and !aco, very wide at the top and ta-
p.erlr.g to nothing at the bottom. The
frill turns back over the left side of
the coat front, the rever lying flat
8cros3 the right side.
Children’s Garments.
The best-selling styles in children's
garments are those that are copied
from women’s wear, says the Dry-
goods Economist. It is surprising how
becoming these little coats are. For
example, the shawl collar and side
fastening, so popular with the grown-
ups, are also meeting with great suc-
cess in children’s coats. The same
is true of the hood effects, pointed col-
lars. new shape sailors and Incroya-
ble revers. Even the cut-up seams are
being employed by tbe designers with
considerable success.
Little Silk Boleros.
The dressmakers have experiment-
ed with boleros for two seasons, and
they seem to have landed them Into
fashion at last. They are worn In
bright colors with white muslin gowne
or old-fashioned frocks of floral or-
gandie. They are finished around the
edge with a plaited ruching of ribbon
or a ruffle of lace. Tbe severe ones
have only a thick cable cord covered
with ^ilk or satin,
o ________
To Clean Silver Mesh Bag.
Any woman who owns a German
or sterling silver mesh bag or purse,
and who has learned how one soils
light dresses and gloves, will be glad
to know that she can clean ft in a
few minutes herself at home. Just
take plenty of soda ’(compron baking
soda), this is what the J< *elers use,
and a little water and brush, rinse
well and dry and think of the econ-
omy—It looks as good as new.
SPELL OF TRAGEDY
Scene of Fatal Duel Between
Brothers Long Noted for
Deeds of Blood.
BENEATH AN EVIL STAR
Accidents Costing Several Lives Have
Recently Been Followed by a Mor-
tal Combat That 8till Remains a
Mystery.
Bloomsbury, Pa.—The spell of trag-
edy hangs over the Peterman home in
Sugarloaf township, where, only a few
days ago, there was fought the duel
that resulted in the death of one Pe-
terman brother and the wounding of
the other, who is recovering and will
be tried for murder.
Since the hour when the news of the
terrible affair at the Peterman farm
became circulated over, the quiet
countryside the history of the Peter-
man homestead, with its tragedies,
began to be recited over and over.
Fifteen years ago, when the Peter-
man fftmily was augmented by the
marriage of John Peterman to a widow
of the Sugarloaf district and the bring-
her three children under the
Peterman roof tree, the family was
one of the happiest of that picturesque
section. One day Mrs. Peterman was
boiling soft soap In a large kettle that
swung from a crane In the old- log-
house. It was a ponderous cauldron,
holding many gallons of the grease
from the annual hog butchering, and
the soap was to be of such quantity
that it would answer the household
all winter.
• Somehow—Just how nobody seemed
to know—one of the widow's children,
in playing about the blazing fire,
knocked the boiling kettle from its
fastening, and the mass of sizzling
grease skilled over, and not only that
particular child, but the two other
children of the woman, scalding all so
badly that they died in a few hours
The tragedy so appalled the mother
that for a long time it was feared she
V
Duel Between Brothers.
would lose her mind, and for a long
time the old loghouBe was shut up, not
even used as a storehouse, tbe mem-
ory of the kettle tragedy being so
poignant that the place was aban-
doned. Today it stands as a link be-
tween the hideous past and the more
hideous present.
One day a few years after the ter-
rible wiping out of Mrs. Peterman’s
little ones, her husband was at work
In the fields not 200 yards from the
house. A high wind,” an accompani-
ment to a terrific storm, swept over
the countryside, and just when Peter-
man was passing at a distance in
which the limbs of the monarch
caught and pinned him to the ground,
a ponderous tree on the knoll was
blown over and Farmer Peterman was
killed. His grave was added to the
row of little graves in the Sugarloaf
cemetery, and alongside that of the
first wife.
Always the history of the Peterman
farm was referred to in tones^of sad-
ness, and the place grew to be asso-
ciated with tbe community in sort of a
weird way. But the capsheaf of its
tragic history was that enacted some-
where in the house or out of It, with
knife and a stone and fist, in the dark-
ness the other night between the two
brothers, who were equally interested
in the property.
There were two-score knife wounds
li: the body of Abram Peterman when
the undertaker came to lay out his
body for burial, and the face and
head were battered in as though done
with a stone. His body had been
found at the foot of a wall, or over-
shot, near the Peterman farmhouse,
and in the latter the brother, John,
himself terribly wounded as though
he had been attacked by a veritable
madman, was found in a semi-uncon-
scious condition. He acknowledged
having slain his brother, but declared
that if he had not killed Abram he
himself would have forfeited his life.
MEETZELADY
MEETS SUCCESS
i
(n Coring Herself of Seri on Fe-
male Ailments, by tbe Use
of CardnL
Meetze, Va.—Mrs. J. C. Green, in a
letter from this city, says: “I cof-
fered with womanly troubles, so that I
could hardly sit up. Two of the best
doctors in our town treated me, and I
tried different medicines, until I car#
up all hope of ever getting welL
One day, 1 decided to try some Can*
dui. It did me so much good that I
ordered some more, and it cured me!
Today, I feel as well as I ever did la
my life.
The pains and the trouble are all
gone. I' feel like another person, la
every way. I wish every sufferer
could know what Cardui will do, for
sick women."
Thousands of ladies have written*
like Mrs. Green, telling of their really
remarkable recovery, from various
forms of weakness and distress. Car-
dui brought relief, after other rem-
edies had failed to help.
Isn’t it likely that you will be helped
by Cardui, this remedy that has been
in constant successful use for more
than half a century? Its record, of
years of success, in relieving troubles
such as your own, is proof that it will
help yon, too. Try it
Get a bottle, from your druggist, to-
day.
IV. B.—Writ® tot Ulict’ Aloiswr
Dept, CkattUMfs Mettetae Co* Clwt-
traooga, Tean., for Special laetrsa
time, aai 84 page lack, “Heme Treat-
■eat for Woaaem," soot la plain wsepi
per, as rot—t.
HOW NA8TY.
Mr. Chumplelgh—My, but it’s hot fas
here, doncherknow. I feel as though I
were being cooked.
Miss Caosteque—Broiled lobstsg
isn’t so bad.
Circumstantial Evidence.
A Scotchman and his wife were vis-
iting in a wild, beautiful part of the
country. While driving one day with,
their host, the two men setting to-
gether in the front seat while the lady
sat behind, they crossed a high bridge
which spanned a roaring torrent. An
unusually loud splash caught the gen-
tlemen’s attention for a moment, but
nothing was said. After several miles
the gentleman turned to address a
remark to his wife, but her seat was
empty.
"Aye,” he remarked to his host,
"that will be yon splash we heard.”—
Housekeeper.
' Hopeless
First Motorist—I have driven a car
for two years and I’ve never yet run
down anybody.
Second Motorist (disgustedly) —
Why don’t you quit trying and hire s
chauffeur ?—Puck.
Why is it that so many people suffer
with Lame Back? Hamlins Wizard Oil
will cure it and for Aches, Sprains.
Bruises, Cuts, Burns, etc., there is noth-
ing better.
A man never gets too old to remem-
! ber some of the things that never oc-
curred when he was a boy.
Stork Brings Quintet of Boys.
Port Limon, Porto Rfco—A quintet
of healthy baby boys arrived at the
home of Don Francisco Rodrlques, s
well-to-dc merchant here.
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Hudson, C. H. & Woodward, Roy. The Pearsall Leader (Pearsall, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, October 27, 1911, newspaper, October 27, 1911; Pearsall, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth974726/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .